"Don't let yourself get caught up in popularity contests. When you care about winning a popularity contest, or maintaining some kind of popular status, you make pleasing other people more important than being true to yourself.
One of the keys to happiness is not having a fuck to give about popularity contests or worry about what THEY will think. THEY don't know a goddamn thing, THEY don't care about who you are when you wake up terrified in the middle of the night. THEY aren't worth your time and energy, so don't put your sense of self worth and control of your happiness into their hands
Be kind. Be honest. Work hard. Speak up. Be honorable. Be silly. Be you."
Whenever someone tells me they're not going to [read | follow | subscribe | whatever] because I'm not dancing precisely the way they want me to, as if I should listen to their threat and immediately modulate who I am to please them, I usually think, "oh how adorable that you think I have a fuck to give for someone who thinks being popular is so important to me that I'll do whatever it takes to keep their (conditional) approval". So I've been thinking about this a lot recently, and I thought I'd take a stab at putting those thoughts into something affirmative that I wish someone had said to me when I was younger, and worried all the time about being popular and cool.
*someday, I'll make a blog here without having to edit the fucking thing twelve times.
